Qdos Entertainment was formed by Nick J Thomas

Nick J Thomas

Nick J. Thomas is a British theatre producer and former puppeteer who founded Qdos Entertainment. A producer since 1982, Thomas was listed in 2008 as the decade’s 5th most influential figure in UK Theatre by The Stage.The son of a garage proprietor and youngest of five children, Thomas moved to...

 in 1986 and is one of the largest broad-based entertainment groups in the UK.

Pantomimes

Qdos Entertainment is the world’s largest pantomime

Pantomime

Pantomime — not to be confused with a mime artist, a theatrical performer of mime—is a musical-comedy theatrical production traditionally found in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Jamaica, South Africa, India, Ireland, Gibraltar and Malta, and is mostly performed during the...

 producer, developing 22 pantomimes in the 2011/2012 season in the UK. Qdos Entertainment’s pantomimes often includes a number of high-profile celebrities; the 2010/11 season included Joan Collins

Joan Collins

Joan Henrietta Collins, OBE , is an English actress, author, and columnist. Born in Paddington and raised in Maida Vale, Collins grew up during the Second World War. At the age of nine, she made her stage debut in A Doll's House and after attending school, she was classically trained as an actress...

, John Barrowman

John Barrowman

John Scot Barrowman is a Scottish-American singer, actor, dancer, musical theatre performer and media personality. Born in Glasgow yet growing up in Illinois after his family emigrated to the United States when he was eight years old, Barrowman was encouraged to further his love for music and...

, Brian Conley

Brian Conley

Brian Conley is an English comedian, television presenter, singer and actor. At the peak of his television career, he was the highest-paid male television personality in the UK. Outside of television, he is best known for his frequent portrayals of Buttons in pantomime versions of...

, Joe Pasquale

Joe Pasquale

Joseph Ellis "Joe" Pasquale is an English comedian from Grays, Essex, arguably most famous for his high-pitched voice, use of visual gags and more recently being crowned "King of the Jungle", on the reality TV show I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!...

, Bradley Walsh, Steve McFadden

Steve McFadden

Steve McFadden is an English actor, known for his role as Phil Mitchell in the BBC soap opera EastEnders, which he has played since1990.-Early life:...

, and Christopher Biggins

Christopher Biggins

Christopher Kenneth Biggins is an English actor and media personality.-Career:Biggins was born in Oldham, Lancashire, England and brought up in Salisbury, Wiltshire, where he took elocution lessons and participated in local drama groups...

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Productions

Qdos Entertainment has produced and co-produced a number of West End

West End theatre

West End theatre is a popular term for mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres of London's 'Theatreland', the West End. Along with New York's Broadway theatre, West End theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English speaking...

 and national touring shows including Boogie Nights - The 70s Musical

Boogie Nights (musical)

Boogie Nights is a British musical, based upon the pop music of the 1970s, written by Jon Conway with Shane Richie and Terry Morrison.-Plot:...

, Boogie Nights 2 - The 80s Musical, Buddy - The Buddy Holly Story, Happy Days the Musical, The King and I

The King and I

The King and I is a stage musical, the fifth by the team of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. The work is based on the 1944 novel Anna and the King of Siam by Margaret Landon and derives from the memoirs of Anna Leonowens, who became governess to the children of King Mongkut of Siam in...

 - London Palladium, This is Elvis, Elaine Paige

Elaine Paige

Elaine Paige OBE is an English singer and actress best known for her work in musical theatre. Raised in Barnet, North London, Paige attended the Aida Foster stage school, making her first professional appearance on stage in 1964, at the age of 16...

 in Concert, Joe Pasquale

Joe Pasquale

Joseph Ellis "Joe" Pasquale is an English comedian from Grays, Essex, arguably most famous for his high-pitched voice, use of visual gags and more recently being crowned "King of the Jungle", on the reality TV show I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!...

 Live, The Chuckle Brothers Live and Simply Ballroom - London Las Vegas & Worldwide Touring. Qdos also produces production shows for US-based Celebrity Cruises.

Leisure Entertainment

Through the subsidiary company The Entertainment Department (UK) Ltd Qdos Entertainment is a provider of leisure sector entertainment and related services in the UK. The company provides a full service from concept through development to delivery of staff, performers, production shows, training programmes, audio visual provision. TED holiday brand clients include Thomson Holidays

Thomson Holidays

Thomson Holidays is a UK based travel operator and part of TUI Travel PLC. The company was founded as part of the Thomson Travel Group in 1965 following the acquisition of three package holiday travel agencies and the airline Britannia Airways by Roy Thomson...

, First Choice

First Choice

First Choice may refer to:* First Choice * First Choice , owned by TUI Travel PLC** First Choice Airways, its in-house airline* First Choice Haircutters, a Canadian hairdressing company...

, Sensatori, Haven Holidays, Park Resorts

Park Resorts

Park Resorts Limited is a UK private limited company which has been owned since 2007 by the US private equity firm, GI Partners, via the UK parent company, Dome Holdings Ltd....

 and Parkdean Holidays

Parkdean Holidays

Formed in November 1999 with a management buyout of Trecco Bay Holiday Park in Wales for £21.4 million. Parkdean Holidays is a UK family holiday park operator that works on a buy and build strategy, currently owning 24 parks throughout the UK and have recently been awarded "UK Holiday Park Operator...

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Theatres

HQ Theatres

HQ Theatres

HQ Theatres Is the UK’s second largest owner and operator of provincial theatrical venues. It a part of the Qdos Entertainment Group.-History:In 2006 Qdos Entertainment and Hetherington Seelig Theatres formed a new collaboration – HQ Theatres Limited....

 Ltd, Qdos’ theatre division, is the UK’s second largest regional theatre operator. The portfolio of HQ Theatres includes The Cliffs Pavilion Southend

Cliffs Pavilion

Cliffs Pavilion is a live theatre in Station Road, Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, England, which seats 1,630 and offers an assortment of variety acts....

, The Palace Theatre Westcliff, Wycombe Swan Theatre

Wycombe Swan

Wycombe Swan is an HQ theatre in High Wycombe. The theatre in opened in November 1992 by Wycombe District Council and has been acquired by HQ Theatre since. it has a capacity of 1076. It presents a varied programme including a pantomime every Christmas. At the Swan itself there were 280...

 High Wycombe, The Wyvern Theatre

Wyvern Theatre

The Wyvern Theatre in Swindon, Wiltshire is named after the mythical wyvern which was once the emblem of the Kings of Wessex. It was opened on 7 September 1971 by Her Majesty the Queen and His Royal Highness Prince Philip....

 Swindon, The Beck Theatre

Beck Theatre

The Beck Theatre is a 600 seat theatre in Hayes, in the London Borough of Hillingdon. It was built in 1977 at a cost of £2.5 million.It was one of 40 buildings considered for the Royal Institute of British Architects London region award in 1978, and won an Access Award from Hillingdon Council for...

 Hayes, The White Rock Theatre

White Rock Theatre

White Rock Theatre is a medium-scale receiving house venue owned by Hastings Borough Council situated on the seafront of Hastings, East Sussex, on the south coast of England...

 Hastings, The Orchard Theatre Dartford, The Watford Colosseum and the G Live concert hall in Guildford which replaces the Civic Hall.

Hospitality

HQ Hospitality Ltd is Qdos’ catering operator which creates and operates HQ Theatres

HQ Theatres

HQ Theatres Is the UK’s second largest owner and operator of provincial theatrical venues. It a part of the Qdos Entertainment Group.-History:In 2006 Qdos Entertainment and Hetherington Seelig Theatres formed a new collaboration – HQ Theatres Limited....

 banqueting suites, restaurants, bars and coffee shops and the Restaurant at the Stephen Joseph theatre in Scarborough. The company also operates two bistro-pubs; the award-winning Copper Horse in Seamer, near Scarborough, and The Tanglewood.

Talent

Qdos Entertainment’s Talent Division includes three separately branded talent agencies.
International Artistes Ltd has been established for over half a century. Today the company represents a diverse roster of talent including Ronnie Corbett

Ronnie Corbett

Ronald Balfour "Ronnie" Corbett, OBE is a Scottish actor and comedian of Scottish and English parentage who had a long association with Ronnie Barker in the British television comedy series The Two Ronnies...

, Joe Pasquale, Shane Richie, The Chuckle Brothers, Paul Merton, and Julian Clary

Julian Clary

Julian Peter McDonald Clary is an English comedian and novelist, known for his deliberately stereotypical camp style, with a heavy reliance on innuendo and double entendre.-Early life and education:...

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Qvoice Ltd represents well known voices for commercials, films and television, including Ricky Gervais, Bill Nighy and Dannii Minogue.
JLM Artistes Ltd represents film and television actors who have been seen on programmes such as Hollyoaks

Hollyoaks

Hollyoaks is a long-running British television soap opera, first broadcast on Channel 4 on 23 October 1995. It was originally devised by Phil Redmond, who has also devised shows including Brookside and Grange Hill...

, EastEnders

EastEnders

EastEnders is a British television soap opera, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 19 February 1985 and continuing to today. EastEnders storylines examine the domestic and professional lives of the people who live and work in the fictional London Borough of Walford in the East End...

, Emmerdale

Emmerdale

Emmerdale, is a long-running British soap opera set in Emmerdale , a fictional village in the Yorkshire Dales. Created by Kevin Laffan, Emmerdale was first broadcast on 16 October 1972...

, Casualty

Casualty (TV series)

Casualty, stylised as Casual+y, is a British weekly television show broadcast on BBC One, and the longest-running emergency medical drama television series in the world. Created by Jeremy Brock and Paul Unwin, it was first broadcast on 6 September 1986, and transmitted in the UK on BBC One. The...

and Doctor Who.